Atomic Comet Wall Art, Mid Century Shooting Star

A shooting star in Atomic Age style. A ten-pointed star with a domed centre leads three long, curving tails that sweep back and taper to points, and small four-pointed sparkle stars sit along the tails. Starbursts, atoms, boomerangs and kidney shapes were the signature motifs of Atomic Age design from the late 1940s into the early 1960s, when optimism about science and space travel shaped everything from clocks to tabletops. Comets, rockets and shooting stars were favourite motifs of the Space…

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